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The Plains of Boyle (hornpipe)

A beguiling tune, which comes up in my sessions now and again.
I learnt it properly yesterday from Pete Cooper’s workshop in Bristol (UK). He linked it with Eamonn McGivney’s Hornpipe, which he also taught us.
Trevor

Banjo tune

i learned this tune on the banjo a few months ago, from a kieran hanrahan recording. he plays it splendidly. it’s a great tune for all fretted instruments; one of the best banjo hornpipes that i know of.

For What It’s Worth….

Had this down on my list of tunes to learn, followed by (or so I interpreted months after jotting down the note) "Pretty Maggie Morrissey." Turns out they are one and the same! According to the discussion under that title, however, Leo Rowsome aficionados make a case that the true title is neither of the above, but rather "The Wexford." However it is called, and whatever it’s place of origin, ‘tis a grand tune altogether!https://thesession.org/tunes/3564

Titles confusion?

Larke: have you mistakenly inserted alternative titles for the tune "The Plains of Boyle" as "The Wexford", "Pretty Maggie Morrisey" and "Roscommon Airport" or did you mean that these are in fact titles of the other hornpipe "Pretty Maggie Morrisey"?

Recordings by James Morrison and Frank Quinn

Frank Quinn (1893-1964) of Greagh, Drumlish, Co. Longford recorded this hornpipe "The Plains of Boyle" in January 1929 on the melodeon. A month later the fiddler James Morrison recorded it also and paired it with "Lawson’s Hornpipe".

ConorW, the "Roscommon Airport" or "Roscommon Air Force" alternative title for the Plains of Boyle is an old joke. Boyle, being in Co. Roscommon, and ‘Plains’ sounding like ‘Planes’, I’m sure you get it 😉